30.2855, Books: A History of African Linguistics: Wolff (ed.)

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:10:53
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: A History of African Linguistics: Wolff (ed.)

 


Title: A History of African Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/african-and-caribbean-language-and-linguistics/history-african-linguistics?format=HB 


Editor: H. Ekkehard Wolff

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108417976 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108417976 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108417976 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this volume forms the first
global history of African linguistics as an autonomous academic discipline,
covering Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Defining African
linguistics, the volume describes its emergence from a 'colonial science' at
the turn of the twentieth century in Europe, where it was first established
mainly in academic institutions of former colonial powers. Its riddance from
the 'colonial project' is traced, following its 'de-colonialisation' and
subsequent spread from imperialist Europe across all inhabited continents,
with particular reference to its academic establishment in the various regions
of Africa. Providing inside views of African linguistic research and its
ramifications over time, active researchers in its various subfields present
highly informative accounts of current and past research priorities and
achievements. The twenty-six authors are themselves representatives of the
various regions of both the world and Africa, in which African linguistics has
become entrenched in academic institutions.
   
   
1. The history of African linguistics H. Ekkehard Wolff; 2. Western Europe:
African linguistics and the colonial project Roland Kiessling; 3. African
linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic countries Roland
Kiessling, Nina Pawlak, Alexander Zheltov and Arvi Hurskainen; 4. African
linguistics in North Africa Abderrahman el Aissati and Yamina el Kirat el
Allame; 5. African linguistics in North-Eastern Africa Ronny Meyer, Maria
Bulakh, Angelika Jakobi, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Wolbert Smidt and
Rainer Voigt; 6. African linguistics in Southern Africa Sonja E. Bosch and
Inge M. Kosch; 7. African linguistics in Eastern Africa Amani Lusekelo; 8.
African linguistics in official English-speaking West Africa Bruce Connell and
Akinbiyi Akinlabi; 9. African linguistics in official French-speaking West and
Central Africa Philip Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka; 10. African linguistics in
official Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Africa Anne-Maria Fehn; 11. African
linguistics in the Americas G. Tucker Childs and Margarida Petter; 12. African
linguistics in Asia and Australia Shigeki Kaji, Sun Xiaomeng, Yang Chul-Joon
and John Hajek.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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